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MachineWitness is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 5 Oct 2026.

EU archive of the machine-readable web: check if a domain is observed, order a time-stamped record.

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 99%
6 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
143 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 5 Oct 2026

MachineWitness missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add archive --transport http https://machinewitness.eu/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://machinewitness.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.archive]
url = "https://machinewitness.eu/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://machinewitness.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archive": {
      "url": "https://machinewitness.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

capture
capture_status
Where a point-in-time record stands, by its reference (MW-K-…): awaiting payment, queued, capturing, first delivery sent, complete. Per witness: waiting, capturing, captured, failed or refused. Never returns the e-mail address, the addresses ordered or anything else about the customer.
coverage
check_coverage
Answer whether this archive observes a given domain, from which sealed day onward, which machine-readable files it requests, and at what cadence. Returns metadata only — never the contents of any file, and never an assessment of the domain or its operator. 'Not observed' is a statement about this archive, not about the domain: most of the web is not observed.
order
order_capture
Create a payment link for a point-in-time record: both witnesses fetch the named addresses, take a full-page picture of each, and give each capture its own qualified electronic time-stamp. Up to twenty public addresses, all on the same domain. Before the link is created, every address is checked at no charge: a public domain name, not on the stop list, robots.txt allows our crawler, and it answers without a login; refused addresses are named with the reason. This call charges nothing. The capture starts only after a person has paid on the returned page; the record is then delivered by e-mail, and a second e-mail follows after the night's seal. Only addresses are asked for, never a purpose. Fees: https://machinewitness.eu/services
suggest
suggest_domain
Suggest that a domain be observed. This is a request, not an instruction: admission follows documented criteria (a connection to the European Union, publicly served machine-readable files) and is decided by the operator. The answer is always 'received' with 'guarantee: none' — it creates no obligation to observe the domain, no timeline, and no assurance that it will be added. A reason is required and is read by a person.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://machinewitness.eu/mcp streamable-http answering 96 ms 12 min ago

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MachineWitness — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MachineWitness do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: capture_status, check_coverage, order_capture, suggest_domain. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is MachineWitness working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 143 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect MachineWitness?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does MachineWitness need an API key?
No. MachineWitness completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is MachineWitness?
It answers our handshake in 143 ms on average, which is faster than 73% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is MachineWitness open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.